Inventing Human Rights

A History

Ranked #36 in Human Rights

In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Hunt grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature, the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth and the spread of empathy. less

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Rabbi Josh Yuter @IonaItalia It's a wonderful book. Took my "Most Favorite Read" spot a couple years ago. (Source)

Nabeel Yasin Books like this show us we can borrow the big ideas and use them to our benefit. (Source)


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